BGC Group, Inc. BGC

What this company does

BGC Group, Inc. specializes in the brokerage and trade execution of a broad range of ECS products, including listed derivatives and physical commodities in the oil and refined, and environmental and energy transition, markets, as well as ship chartering. It also provides brokerage services across fixed income securities such as government bonds and corporate bonds, as well as interest rate derivatives and credit derivatives, foreign exchange, equities and futures and options. The company operates offices across major geographies, including New York and London, as well as cities such as Beijing, Bogota, Brisbane, Cape Town, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dubai, Dublin, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, Houston, Johannesburg, Madrid, Manila, Melbourne, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, Monaco, Nyon, Palm Beach, Paris, Perth, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Toronto, Wellington and Zurich. As of December 31, 2025, it employed approximately 4,560 employees in 26 countries spread across six continents. Its business originated from Cantor, and Cantor started the company's wholesale intermediary brokerage operations in 1972. In August 2004, Cantor announced the reorganization and separation of its inter-dealer Voice and Hybrid brokerage businesses into a subsidiary named BGC.

Written from the business description in BGC Group, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 2 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.